Cigarette rolling device



- July 16, 1946. L. G. Moss 2,404,242

CIGARETTE ROLLING DEVICE Filed March 13, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 JNVENTORQ ZZ OneZ uyMoss BY I My, Q5 39 July 16, 1946. I a oss 2,404,242

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Patented July 16, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CiG A R ET-TE ROLLINGLDEVICE Lionel Guy Moss, Dun-bar, WL- Va. Application March 13, 1945, Serial N0..58 2;5-10' This invention concerns a simple; cheap and easily operated device forrolling cigarettes; and which by its compactness and lack of protruding parts can be carried in the pocket or stored in a drawer.

An illustrative form of construction is shown on the accompanying" drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device with the parts in position to be charged.

Figures 2 to 5 are longitudinal sectional views showing the successive positions occupied during charging and rolling:

Figure 6 is a cross-section substantially on line 66 of Fig. 4.

The structure is illustrated as consisting of three relatively movable parts, which are a base ill; a slider'l I, and a flexible. apron ii.

The base It] has upstanding side walls 15 with inwardly projecting upper guide ribs [6 for a part of the'length-from" the discharge'end, these ribs l6 being omitted above the charging point; The spacing" of these side walls corresponds to the desired length of the cigarette. The floor portion I! of the base is provided with a crossgroove l'8at which charging is efiectedand whose size serves to measure the amount of tobacco for the cigarette. -Thefloor'and side walls provide a trough-like structure which is open at both ends.

A dowel l9 extends upwardly from'the floor.

The slider ll is'long'erthan' the base and has a rounded'nose at its advancing end (toward the left in Figs; 2 to 5), with a-large-radius are 21 smoothly merging'with the planetop of 'theslider, and having at the extreme end of the slider a lesser radius arc 2 2 which endsessentially in the plane of the'bottom of the body of 'the slider. Behind the nose, a cross groove 23 is formed by curved wall surfaces which provide a pocket to receive the tobacco during rolling; the rearward wall having its junction with the plane bottom of the slider at a dihedral angle 24 less than 90 degrees. This groove- 23 has a smoothly curved wall which for a major part is a circular semicylinder of a size closely corresponding to the desired diameter of the cigarette. The bottom of the slider has a longitudinal groove 25, cooperative with the dowel [9 for limiting the movement of the slider.

The apron I2 is flexible, and preferably is of rubberized cloth, which does not cling tightly to particles of the tobacco, and has resistance against elastic stretching. In the illustrated form, the apron has hems at each end; one hem being looped around the cross pin 21 which is seated in the sidewalls l5 near the rear end of the base,

5 Claims. (Cl. Idl --51 the otherhem beingfastened-to the front" of thebase. The width of. the apron" closely conforms to the spacing between theside walls l5 so that it can lie flat on the floor portion I1; whileits length permits it to'be tucked into the charging groove" l8 andalsoto form a' slack loop between the groove and thepin 21 (see Figs; 1 and-2).

In operation, the slider II is withdrawn to theposition of Figs; 1 and 2. Theapron l2' istucked intothe'cross-groove l8, as-shown in these figures; with-its slack rearward of'the-groove'. Tobacco T is then loaded into 'the pocket formed-by the'belt asshown in Fig. 2, with the size of the groove l8' serving to measure the quantity; and a paper P is placed flat upon the apron ata point betweenthe groove l8 and the front or discharge end of the floor H; with the gummed edge G moistened andlocated remotefrom the groove l8.-

The slider l-lis now pushed inward (toward the left in Figs. 2; to-5). Therounded-nosecauses the material of the slack loop of the aprontobepushed over the tobacco T lying in thepocket and, astheslider-movementcontinued, the apron bight between the baseand the slider and inthe groove [8, with its charge oftobacco, is transferredintoe the cross-groove of the slider H (Fig. 3). As the slider moves, the apronpasses aroundtheroundedj nose after travelling around the curved walls or theslider cross-groove and causes-the tobacco T to be rolled over and over and compacted i'nt'o cylindrical-form? The progress of the rolling tobacco: T brings it onto the paper P, and: the apron guides the paper around thetobacco (Fig. 4) until the advancing the paper' still flat on the floor I! and then the other surface of thiswrapping. paper. is contacted with the moistened adhesive, and the rolling con.- tinued. It will. be noted that the slider may be, left at rest, after the paper has disappeared into the cross-groove in the slider, to assure sticking and setting. of the adhesive, if desired.

he final movement of the slider H brings its nose beyond the floor I? (Fig. 5), and the taking up of slack in the apron l2 causes ejection of the finished cigarette X.

The device is now ready to form a new cigarette by withdrawing the slider II, and proceeding as edge is brought against of uniform size permits the sliding movement but also produces pressure upon the tobacco cylinder which is being formed.

The base l may be made of a singlepiece of i l, be of severalrpieces 7 wood,,plastic, etc., or can secured fixedly together, as indicated 'inFig. 6.

The pin 21 is illustrated as of uniformdiameterv from end to end and from the base for assembly and disassembly of the device. I Such dowel pivot pin assemblies are well-known as, for example, in the Pollak Patent No. 194,928 and thdLigOri Patent No; 1,925,640. When it is desired to include a filter in the cigarette, the filter plug E (Fig. 1)"m'ay be laid in the tobacco pocket during charging: and then it also is rolled and wrapped by the paper during the operation. 7 1- I I r y The employment of the two cross grooves I 8 and 23 permits accurate formation of cigarettes and having a tightness of compasting as desired by the user. withthe apron therein, permits themeasuring of the-desired amount of tobacco,the maximum amo unt'being indicated by filling of-the groove.

7 By compactingthe tobacco in the groove, a

f tighter fill or harder cigarette is produced. The transfer of the :travellingbight of the apron, with itscharge of tobacco, into the close-embracing cross groove23, causes therolling and compressingof the mass preliminary torand during the operation of wrapping it: and this compressing isafunction of the hard and shape-maintaining walls of this groove rather than of the flexible but essentially non-extensible belt itself, so that the cigarettes having an essentially predetermined diameter regardless of the amount of the charge; The device is capable of rolling various kinds of tobacco such as shredded, crimp-cut,

broken leaf, etc.

' tance between the 'ends of the base effective to form a bight between the base and slider and The groove 18,

having a force-fit in the holes in the side walls l; so that by'for'cing the pin 21 endwise, it can be inserted in and removed I 4 engaging the wall of the slider cross-groove during the relative movement.

2. A cigarette roller comprising a base having a cross-groove therein to provide a tobaccomeasuring pocket, a slider movable along the base and having a cross-groove spaced from the front end thereof, and a flexible, essentially nonextensible apron fastened at its ends to said base, the slider being movable along said base beneath the apron and in its rearmostposition exposing the base groove whereby the apron may be tucked into the base groove for receiving the tobacco, said apron having longitudinal slack for positioning rearward of the base groove to permit an initial movement of the slider past the basegroove until the grooves are 'alined, the slider groove'having'a size and form for receiving a bight of the apron and thetobacco and causing rolling thereof as the slider advances and for IOllll'igarolllld. .the tobacco a wrapping paper I originally positioned on the apron between the base groove and the discharger end of the base. 3. A cigarette roller. comprising a trough-like base having inwardly extending guide ribs 'on'its side Walls, a slider movable along and closely fitting the walls of the base, the floor of the base having a cross-groove therein, said slider having a rounded nose and'a cross-groove in its lower surface adjacent said nose, and a flexible, essentially non-extensible apron fastened at its ends to the base and fitting therein for conforming to the said base fioor and thecross-groove thereof during charging, said slider being guided and confined by the base floor and the guide ribs during its final sliding forward movement.

4. A cigarette roller having a base with'a crossgroove therein, a slider movable along the base and having a cross-groove which is alined with the base cross-groove during an early part of such relative movement, and a flexible, essentially non-extensible apron fastened at its'ends to the base and having 'a length greater than the dis tance betweenthe ends of the baseeffe'ctive to form a bight between the ,base' and slider and engaging the wall' of the slider cross-groove during the relative movement; said slider having relative movement, said slider cross-groove having the major portion of its wall of circular semicylindrical shape for guiding .a partof the apron bight while acting through the iapro n for coinpressing a "charge of'tob'ac'co in said bight.

5. A cig a ette roller as in claim l, in which the slider has a plane bottom plane surface of the iba se an d the slider cross groove has the edge of the rearward partof its wall joining the slider bottom at a dihedral angle less than degrees,

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